The Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, reiterated this Monday that the government will ask the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for voting power in Eletrobras proportional to its stake in the power company.
The minister also stressed that the direct action of unconstitutionality filed in the STF last Friday by the government with this purpose “has absolutely nothing to do with the review of the privatization of Eletrobras”.
What he seeks, according to him, is to re-establish the political rights of the Union.
“The National Congress was sovereign when it decided, at another time, in another government, in another context, to privatize Eletrobras, but it is unacceptable that the Brazilian government, i.e. the Brazilian population, has 43% of the shares of Eletrobras and only up to 10% voting power,” he said in an interview with CNN Brasil.
“So it is common ground within the government that we have the right to ask the judiciary to discuss the government’s participation in Eletrobras.”
Source: Terra
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